The world’s celebration of Christmas is one of the reasons why I am glad and very thankful I got to read the Bible in its entirety many, many years ago.

Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of ...